ChotaMota Art Program – 23 (AP-23) will remain open for 24 days – from 13 January to 05 February 2023. Anybody, from anywhere, in the age group of 15 to 27, can take part!
Submit your entries at any time during this period.
You may participate in all the three art categories. Send us a maximum of two entries for an art category.
There is no entry fee.
The Foundation does not stake any copyright claim on the items of artwork entered in the art programs.
Award
Select entries to the art program shall be accorded financial awards and will be put on display on this website. Award money for the art programs have been recently scaled up. The new award structure is:
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Award category |
Amount (Rs.) |
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Trailblazer |
7000 |
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Dreamspinner |
5000 |
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Mastercrafter |
3000 |
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Budding Weaver (only for age-group 15-17yrs. and first timers) |
1000 |
Only one award will be conferred to a participant for the best among the jury-recommended art works submitted in an art category.
For the FIRST-TIMERS:
A first-time participant in an art category may get a Budding Weaver award, if none of his / her entries qualifies for a higher award and one of them meets the minimum standard set for an award.
For the other participants in Photography and Poster
The participants awarded at least twice in the past will be considered only for Dreamspinner and Trailblazer awards.
CMF art programs are NOT competitions. The entries are therefore not ranked as first, second, etc. Instead, a three-member jury is appointed to evaluate each art work independently on its own merit. Based on the jury’s evaluation, each of the select entries is graded in one of the above four award-categories.
Specifics
AP-23 includes three Art categories :-
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- Photography
Opens on: Friday 13 January 2023
Closes on: Sunday 05 February 2023
Results on: Sunday 19 March 2023
CATCHPHRASES (for Photography and Poster)
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English |
বাংলা |
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Change is as good as rest |
অচলে ও বদলে ভেদ নেই আসলে |
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My head is a very dark place |
মগজ আমার গহন আঁধার |
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No planet B for us |
আমাদের জন্য…নেই গ্রহ অন্য |
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Nameless identity |
নামহীন পরিচিতি |
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Brain proposes … heart disposes |
মগজের সায়, হৃদয়ের দায় |
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Nonchalant slumber |
বেমালুম ঘুম !!! |
You are free to choose any of the listed Catchphrases for Photography and Poster. There is no Catchphrase for Graphic Story. Catchphrases are not to be interpreted literally. Be as creative as possible in your interpretation and application. Give vent to your ideas freely… and shape your creation taking cue from the catchphrases.
More about catchphrases ….
- For Photography and Poster, you may send at most one entry on a theme of your choice. The other entry must be using a Catchphrase. You may as well use Catchphrases for both the entries.
- Same Catchphrase may be used for more than one art category.
- Catchphrases are not topic or theme; they are just to stimulate the thinker in you.
Photography
Pick the Catchphrases and/ or a theme of your choice and get the image with your phone or camera.
- Capture the magic in the world as it is OR create a vision with your own photographs on your laptop.
- Make sure that the submitted image be 1024 x 768 pixels (longer side), with resolution 72 dpi saved as jpeg.
- The image should be converted to a RGB color space and must not exceed 1 MB.
- Photographs with borders, watermarks, frames, or name/signatures will not be accepted.
Poster
Make a statement of your own in form of poster using paint-brush or pencil or pen or your laptop. Pick the Catchphrases and/ or a theme of your choice and get going. You may choose any subject of your choice other than those that are overtly on partisan politics. Send a jpeg of your creation. You need not send the original artwork now. Just keep a hard copy ready for sending to us when required.
Graphic Story ( Comics and Illustrated Story)
There is no Catchphrase for Graphic Story.
If you want to tell your story with illustration, let it be in not more than 10 pages of text and visuals.
Or if you wish to narrate your story in Comics, let it be in not more than 10 frames.
You need not send the original artwork now. Only keep a hard copy ready for sending to us when required.
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Accompany your entry with a short (within 50 words) write up about it. The write up is to contain the following:
2. Technical details of your Artwork: e.g. medium (oil, acrylic, digital, mixed etc.) size (not applicable for digital work), and device used.
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WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU TO DO?
- Question the commonplace and express your ideas in any of the above three art categories.
- Send us a maximum of 2 entries you want in one or all the three art categories. More than two entries for an art category would stand disqualified.
- Don’t repeat entries if you had already sent them to ChotaMota; the entries will then be disqualified.
- Send only those creations completed within last six months.
- Make sure what you submit is a composition of your own creation, and speaks truly to you.
- Feel free to borrow ideas from others and acknowledge, but don’t reproduce others’ work in entirety. You will be disqualified if you are found to do so.
HOW CAN YOU SUBMIT YOUR ARTWORK?
On-line submission:
- For Poster and Graphic Story, if the entry you would like to submit is originally developed on an electronic medium, please convert it into a JPEG Otherwise, if the original is on a physical medium (like paper and canvass), first scan it or photograph it and then convert the photo or the scanned copy into a JPEG file and send us.
- Send the Photograph saved as JPEG with specifics mentioned above.
- Click Upload Entry to submit your entry.
You may contact here:
The ChotaMota Foundation
3/6/1 S.M Ali Road,
Barrackpore – 700120
West Bengal, India.
Mobile and WhatsApp: (+91) 98365 68902
